OverviewThis forward looking and innovative MLA Landscape Architecture is a Conversion Masters that offers applicants who wish to make a career change the opportunity to qualify and become a professional landscape architect.The MLA Landscape Architecture course provides you with opportunities to explore responses to climate change emergency and biodiversity loss, and help in planning and designing meaningful, fair and resilient landscapes, places and communities of the future. Exploring these themes and issues is central to our common future and our Landscape Architecture course is very well placed to build employability skills that will position you at the forefront of these subjects.The course stimulates a design studio culture and encourages high levels of research, design innovation, creativity and distinct ownership of ideas and concepts. We put an emphasis on contemporary practice and real-world projects aligned to develop the critical integration of theory and practice across scales, from landscape planning to master planning to detail design.We invite applications from students from any disciplinary background.Enhancing your employability skillsThis MLA Landscape Architecture course aims to provide graduates with a set of attributes which prepare them for their future careers. You will be able to:Produce complex design proposals understanding the current global professional issues and contemporary Landscape Institute policy.Gain confident skills and knowledge as a designer to respond to the issues of Climate Change which will position you at the forefront of these subjects.Work on live projects, and with real clients, with confidence.Work independently and collaboratively in multi-disciplinary environments.Be a creative thinker to solve problems in wider professional contexts.Negotiate, plan and communicate your designs to a professional standard.Work with Industry standard IT, e.g. AutoCAD, Vectorworks, Adobe Suite, Edina Digimap, and other digital modelling.